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Dr Christopher Ringrose - Principal Lecturer in English and Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator, School of the Arts

Chris RingroseResearch interests

My research interests are diverse and include:

  • Contemporary Literature: I have recently published a study of the Nigerian-born writer Ben Okri, and am Associate Editor for Contemporary Literature of the Annotated Bibliography of English Literature.
  • Postcolonial Writing: as an Editorial Advisor to the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
  • Life Writing: my doctoral research was in Victorian and Edwardian Autobiography and I contributed essays on Victorian autobiography to The Encycolopedia of Life Writing, and have written on the autobiographies of Europeans enslaved in North Africa in the 18th C .
  • Children's Literature: I have a special interest in the work of the children's writer 'BB', but have also published on other aspects of 20th-century fiction written for children.

I am currently doing research into the use of e-learning in Higher Education in the UK, and into practical ways of incorporating it into the curriculum.

  • "A Journey Backwards: History Through Style in Children's Fiction"? Children's Literature in Education 38.3 (September 2007)
  • "Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2006". Contemporary British Novelists. Ed. Rod Menghem and Philip Tew. London: Continuum, 2006.
  • "Lying in Children's Fiction:Morality and the Imagination." Children's Literature in Education 37.3 (September 2006)
  • "Victorian Autobiography: Henry James, Harriet Martineau, John Ruskin.''  The Encyclopaedia of Life Writing, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
  • "Productivity: Literary Value and the Curriculum." English Studies: Working Pages on the Web (November 2001). http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wpw/value/ringrose.htm
  • "Getting Lost in a Book.'  Children's Literature in Education 21. 3 (September 1990).
  • "F R Leavis and Yvor Winters on G M Hopkins.  English Studies 55. 1 (1974).
  • "The Poetry of Ralph Gustafson" Canadian Literature  46.2 (1973).
  • "Fiddlehead's Energy."  Canadian Literature  45.4 (1972).
  • "Patrick Anderson and the Critics." Canadian Literature 43.4 (1970).

Conference Papers

  • "Navigating into Slavery." South Central Society for 18thC Studies, USA, Georgia February 2005.
  • "Letters and Autobiographies of 18thC Immigrants to America."  BAAS Annual Conference, University of  Cambridge, March 1995.
  • "Ted Hughes and the Yorkshire Landscape: Remains of Elmet."  Leeds Metropolitan University, June 1997 (Public Lecture)
  • "Borges and Bertolucci" Birmingham Arts Centre 1999. (Public Lecture)
  
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